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Learn, by a mortal yearning, to ascend -- / Seeking a higher object. Love was given, / Encouraged, sanctioned, chiefly for that end: / For this the passion to excess was driven, / That self might be annulled: -- her bondage prove / The fetters of a dream, opposed to love. / WORDSWORTH. -- _Laodamia._
DEAREST MARMADUKE,